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[10], By 8 June 2007, Mongrel Media and Capri Releasing reported the film had grossed $1 million in Canada. How can you do that by limiting your palette, instead of making it more complex? I didn’t want the visual style to draw too much focus to itself. [14] The Globe and Mail called it "heartbreaking" and "indelible". She regards reality without blinking. [26], Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage, Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association. [6] It was the first English Canadian film to cross the $1 million threshold in Canada in 2007. | The one aware character is Kristen Thomson as Kristy, the kind nurse who gives Grant practical advice. Sarah Polley, whose “Away From Her” is a heartbreaking masterpiece, has the courage to simply observe the devastation of the disease. The movie spares us coy early scenes where she seems healthy and then starts to slip; she starts right out putting a frying pan into the refrigerator. Olympia Dukakis, Michael Murphy, Wendy Crewson, Alberta Watson, and Kristen Thomson are featured in supporting roles. Just as the models in plus-size catalogs always look thin, so the models in retirement ads always look like these two: youthful, athletic, foxy. [16], Roger Ebert awarded it four stars, calling the greatest of the films about Alzheimer's of the early 21st century, and "a heartbreaking masterpiece". Read on to know details. Polley told Andrew O’Hehir of Salon: “For me the overriding palette that we were working with was the idea of this very strong, sometimes blinding winter sunlight that should infuse every frame. Sarah Polley, still so young, always until now an actress (“The Sweet Hereafter,” “My Life Without Me”), emerges here as a director who is in calm command of almost impossible material. [7] Distributed by Lions Gate Films,[8] the film opened in New York City on 4 May 2007. She had the spark of life.” And for the most part, the film is a tale of marital love and the depth of feeling and commitment that grows out of decades of togetherness. True, “The Notebook” also moved from present to past, and supplied well-timed but unlikely moments when the patient’s mind opened in perfect clarity and memory. He is deeply wounded. I was reminded of Bergman’s “Winter Light” (1962), which bathes despair in merciless daylight. Away from Her is a 2006 Canadian independent drama film written and directed by Sarah Polley and starring Julie Christie and Gordon Pinsent. Netflix's Cuties had stirred a lot of controversy due to its inappropriate poster and synopsis. Alzheimer’s is usually like that. And that is enough about the plot. Olympia Dukakis, Michael Murphy, Wendy Crewson, Alberta Watson, and Kristen Thomson are featured in supporting roles. Fiona begins to lose her memory, and it becomes apparent she suffers from Alzheimer's disease. They have been told she has Alzheimer’s disease. [2] She also envisioned her No Such Thing co-star Julie Christie as Fiona. [4], Atom Egoyan, who directed Polley in films such as The Sweet Hereafter, served as executive producer. [11] It made an additional $2 million in the U.S.[6], The film finished its run on 19 July 2007 after grossing $4,571,521 in North America. Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. Their marriage has been a generally happy and loving one although not perfect due to some indiscretions when Grant was working as a college professor. After some time, Aubrey's wife Marian removes him from the home due to financial difficulties. The title, Away From Her, references Grant’s feelings about Fiona on the day she proposed marriage to him: “I took her up on it. With Julie Christie, Michael Murphy, Gordon Pinsent, Stacey LaBerge. They look robust in their cold-weather gear, and when they come inside from their daily skiing, they look so comfortable with each other that they make us feel cozy. However, the movie released recently on Netflix and has been gaining popularity among users online. Despite being wary of this policy, Grant agrees at the insistence of his wife whom he loves. I never wanted to be away from her. "Away From Her" is the fifth film I’ve seen about Alzheimer’s in these opening years of the century, and the best, although only one of them has been disappointing. Throughout the film, Grant's reflections on his marriage are woven with his reflections on his own infidelities, and influence his eventual decisions regarding Fiona's happiness. —Jon C. Hopwood. A man coping with the institutionalization of his wife because of Alzheimer's disease faces an epiphany when she transfers her affections to another man, Aubrey, a wheelchair-bound mute who also is a patient at the nursing home. [25] Lionsgate Films also chose to concentrate on promoting Christie in its Academy Award campaigning. [21][22][23][24], Word about possible Academy Award recognition for Away from Her began at the Toronto International Film Festival, and critics associations particularly recognized Julie Christie for her performance. [18] Dave Calhoun of Time Out said the film stood out for the idea that Fiona's Alzheimer's is punishment for Gordon's adulteries. And then there was Richard Eyre’s “Iris” (2001), about the decline of the novelist Iris Murdoch, which struck me as cheating because it was too much about young Iris. She and Grant made this decision together, although a still lucid Fiona seems to have made peace with the decision and her diagnosis more so than Grant. There are only the victims going far, far away, until finally, as if they have fallen into a black hole, no signs can ever reach us from them again. [13] In Canada, the Toronto International Film Festival named it one of Top 10 Canadian films of the year. [2], At that point of Polley's career, she had acted and had directed numerous short films, while the Munro adaptation would be her first feature film as director. Or whatever. [6] The DVD release of the film included Polley's 2001 short film I Shout Love as a bonus feature. McGill, Robert, "No Nation but Adaptation: Demetrios Matheou, "Not Remembering to Forget", in: This page was last edited on 5 October 2020, at 02:40. She makes a decision on her own to check into a comfortable nearby nursing home, and Grant drives her there, remembering their younger adventures along the same route. [9] Mongrel Media and Capri Releasing released the film in Canada on 4 May. Who is “we?” What is “love?”. When he returns after 30 days, he finds Fiona almost inseparable from another patient, the mute Aubrey (Michael Murphy). Grant is touched by this, and visits Marian in an effort to allow Fiona to see Aubrey again. [1], The film received acclaim from critics. | After her powerful speech, and her series run of coming to fiercely embody exactly who she is, this is a vindication of the woman who didn't actually murder, but who tried to mother and to survive. And “Memory of a Killer” stars Jan Decleir in an unforgettable performance as an aging Belgian hit man who wants to retire, and undertakes one last job in which he fights against the fading of his light to bring about an extraordinary outcome. 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Doubling back to pick up some titles I missed in the last year. [3] Most of the shooting occurred in Kitchener, Ontario, with some filming in Brant, Bracebridge, Paris, Ontario and Toronto. [19], Variety's Dennis Harvey complimented it for "a low-key, intelligent setting for performances marked by those same qualities", singling out Pinsent and Christie. The other man is Aubrey, a wheelchair bound mute patient at the nursing home. The despair here is Grant’s. With the death of every person we have known, our mutual memories become only personal, and then when we die the memories die. | But it proposed to be a romance, not a biography. There are few great love stories replayed in the closing days, few books written, few flashbacks as enjoyable for the victims as they are for us. An administrator explains that Grant will not be able to visit for 30 days; it’s easier if new patients are cut off from family contact while adjusting to their new lives. [17] Peter Bradshaw, writing in The Guardian, found the film smart and said this is possibly Christie's greatest performance. What can I say, I like movies that make me cry, and nothing did that better. Munro in her short fiction has the ability to evoke a lifetime in images and dialogue of almost startling perception. She tends him like her own patient, and seems indifferent, even vague, about Grant. All of these films persist in linking Alzheimer’s disease to a story. Using sympathy and tenderness for its characters, “Away From Her” tells the story of a marriage that drifts out of the memory of the wife, and of the husband’s efforts to deal with that fact. All very good, the third perhaps the best. She has empathy for him, and pity, and she can explain routines and treatments and progressions to him, but she cannot do anything about his grief. As it turns out, Aubrey has a wife named Marian (Olympia Dukakis), and Grant visits her, at first wondering if she could consider moving her husband to another place. The actors and 60 crew members spent two weeks on an unused second floor. He would rather see his wife happy with another man than miserable and alone. A man coping with the institutionalization of his wife because of Alzheimer's disease faces an epiphany when she transfers her affections to another man, Aubrey, a wheelchair-bound mute who also is a patient at the nursing home. [6], In the United Kingdom, Away from Her opened on 27 April 2007. Death wipes the slate clean at once, which is a mercy compared to the light of recognition that slowly fades in the eyes of loved ones who have Alzheimer’s. Synopsis [7] Entertainment Weekly gave it a B, with Lisa Schwarzbaum writing Christie is "mesmerizing". Plot Keywords That would almost be a relief, if the alternative is that she is forgetting him. With respect to the facility, what Grant has the most difficulty with are what he sees as the sadness associated with the facility's second floor - where the more advanced cases are housed - but most specifically the facility's policy of no visitors within the first thirty days of admission to allow the patient to adjust more easily to their new life there.
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